Agri(c)ulture: What’s Growing in LA?
Fallen Fruit Tree Adoption at Machine Project Gallery in L.A.
Janet Owen Driggs
Sunday Coffee Hour in the PLANT reading room
Title: Agri(c)ulture: What’s Growing in LA?
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Date: March 22
Start Time: 1pm
End Time: 2pm
Description:
Los Angeles is frequently billed as a place where culture grows small in the shadow of a flourishing entertainment industry. However, with its increasing focus on cultivating sustainable civic, social and public spaces through the action of growing food, L.A. culture is not just burgeoning, but positively flowering.
L.A.-based writer artist and curator Janet Owen Driggs will present projects that are growing (or have recently grown) in L.A, including Not A Cornfield, Farmlab Fallen Fruit, Islands of LA and Edible Estates
Janet Owen Driggs’ recent publications include texts for ArtUS, RiM magazine, the Hammer Museum, Art Review, and the anthology Kolibri. Most recently she has edited History, Site, Document, a book about Not A Cornfield, an art project that took place in Downtown Los Angeles, 2005-6.
Owen Driggs has curated and organized events with, among other institutions, MOCA, Los Angeles; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and the Hong Kong Art Center. As an artist she has exhibited most recently in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Mexico City. Before transitioning to collaborative and participatory practice she exhibited for over a decade as an individual artist, with projects appearing in solo and group exhibitions at venues including: Beaux Arts, Delfina Studios, and the Camden Art Center (UK), Shoshanna Wayne and Flowers West (US), Sandberg Institute (Netherlands), Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (Brazil), and ArtPool (Sweden).
Owen Driggs is currently a member of Adjunct Faculty at the USC School of Fine Arts and Studio Writer at Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation.
